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LETTERS FROM THE EDITORS

Dear readers,

Entering the journalism field means making sacrifices.

Don’t get me wrong. There are much harder jobs. We don’t cut down trees. We don’t plumb the depths of the earth in search of oil or natural gas. We’re not commercial fishermen. We won’t die on the job.

But unlike those considerably more dangerous jobs, the role of a journalist has been in a state of flux for years. It’s not enough for most journalists to know how to ask questions and write an objective, style-accurate story. We need to be prepared to take pictures, shoot and edit video, and publish stories online. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications tells us we should consider ourselves “content creators.”

And we can’t expect a whole lot of job security. People will always need to eat. They won’t always read newspapers. In fact, they already don’t.

There’s no telling what journalism will be in 10 years. Thousands of college students across the country are studying journalism, and what they’re learning may be useless by time they enter the job market. This scenario is not exclusive to journalism. Engineering and science fields are constantly growing and evolving. Doctors will spend the rest of their lives learning new techniques and replacing outdated methods.

But doctors make six-figure salaries. Doctors are respected. We have doctors in Congress. Do we have any journalists?

Journalist and media critic Jim Romenesko recently posted an item on his blog about Gannett’s CEO Gracia Martore receiving a $4.5 million raise between 2013 and 2014, while Gannett publications across the country, such as USA Today, are downsizing staff because of “economic and business conditions.”

News publications are often taken to task by their readers for typos and factual errors. This isn’t surprising. While newsrooms everywhere (including the DN) have had to tighten their belts, often times the first staff members to face the axe are copy editors, who are the last line of defense against misspellings, numerical errors and inaccuracies.

The picture is clear: The corporate class that has the final say at many newspapers and publications has no qualms about cutting essential staff to fill their own coffers, even when that staff is typically the only thing maintaining a publication’s credibility. It doesn’t help that very few people actually understand how a newsroom works.

Journalists are easy targets. And the criticism isn’t necessarily unwarranted. We have a responsibility to inform, and some of us don’t use our power responsibly. These people are worthy of criticism. But it’s rarely the select few who are bad at their jobs

that receive the brunt of criticism, and more often the publications themselves, or the “media” at large. And that criticism shouldn’t be aimed at the rank-and-file beat reporters or the copy editors, but the corporate culture that drains our resources and understates our importance.

Many of us are concerned about the state of education in the U.S. But we often forget that education doesn’t end when you get your degree. It never ends, and journalists are the ones responsible for your ongoing education. We deserve respect, from the readers and commenters who — bless their hearts — can’t resist a potshot, and the superiors who determine our ultimate fate.

We know how you see us. We feel the squeeze. But that’s OK. We’re without pride.

We don’t mind being punching bags. Our role in a cultured, civilized, informed society is far too important, and if we someday enter a nuclear winter, journalists will still be here, like roaches, writing news briefs on papyrus in our own blood. We care deeply, and we can tolerate unrequited love.

Best, Zach Fulciniti Print A&E editor

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Matt Heng stands inside his Wienermobile in Lincoln Wednesday. Heng, a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student, turned down an interview for a full-time job to interview for his job driving around the Wienermobile.

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Keegan Baker paints a portrait in his downtown studio in Lincoln Tuesday. Baker graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013 and since then has supported himself with commissions from his portraits.

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Baker’s painting “Pig Patriarch” is a good example of his subject matter and style.

Local artist incorporates fantasy, reality in portraits KATJA DUERIG DN Art often combines elements of reality and imagination.

For Lincoln artist Keegan Baker, these elements come together to reveal the personality behind his pieces.

Baker has been making art for about 10 years. Inspired by video games from a young age, he attended the University of NebraskaLincoln and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in December 2013.

He mainly does portraits of his friends and self-portraits and occasionally takes pictures of people on the street to paint. These portraits are sometimes set in elaborate fantasy worlds.

“I feel like if I have this world that a lot of my work can be based around, it can feel itself more,” Baker said. “If I’m ever struggling to figure out what to draw, then I can go back to that.”

These fantasy worlds combine animals,

weapons and vibrant landscapes with realistic portraits of people. The paintings range from ridiculous to noble, as seen in “Pig Patriarch” and “Wolf Lorde,” and change according to what Baker means to portray about a person.

Baker ’s girlfriend, Camille Neemann, is often the subject of Baker ’s pieces.

Of her involvement with her boyfriend’s work, she said, “It’s kind of a team effort. I support him as much as I can.”

In the fantasy series, she’s “Sheep Queen,” adorned in a bed sheet, rain boots and crown.

“That one was, like, taken in my kitchen,” Neemann said. “And it’s funny because you usually don’t have your boyfriend digging through your closet...throwing (together) the most random outfits I would never pick out for myself.”

Neemann, another UNL graduate, said she met Baker in a history class. Sometime after they started dating, he asked if he could draw her. This turned into her being photo-

graphed for portraits.

“We spend so much time together, he gets those more candid moments as well,” she said. “And I know he likes doing more straight-on photos.”

For more realistic portraits, Baker and Neemann set up meetings with friends where everyone knows he will be taking reference photos. He said he focuses in on the subject’s faces and is obsessed with them.

“I just wanted to get as much out of (the face) as I could,” he said. “Really delve into the landscape of the face.”

To portray the face, and emotion and personality with it, Baker experiments with different mediums. He said these mediums have different qualities and levels of control that inform each other. “(I’m) just pushing the gritty, textural quality of the paint and how that lends itself or doesn’t to an image,” he said. “I go from digital to traditional quite a bit, so I’ll do a big series just working in one or the other.”

Neemann said Baker ’s work broad-

ens certain aspects of subjects’ personality.

She referenced her annoyed face in “Sheep Queen” and how Baker highlighted it, creating a look of contempt.

“I think he does a great job of really bringing different aspects of people’s personalities through,” she said. “And just really putting them in the right situations, too.”

Since they’ve known each other, Neemann said, Baker ’s artwork has gotten smaller and more focused. She said that this evolution gives people a more intimate look at the person in the portrait.

“It’s really great to see his recent ones,” she said, “Where you really get a connection with a person versus maybe a connection with an environment in a moment.”

Baker now does private commissions in Lincoln, which he said is just what he wants to be doing. Check out keeganbaker.blogspot. com for his works and contact information.

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Alumnus roams the country in Wienermobile LAUREN BROWN-HULME DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate Matt Heng went from driving a Hyundai Santa Fe to criss-crossing the country behind the wheel of a 27-foot-long, 11-foot-tall fiberglass hot dog on wheels.

Heng is 1 of 12 “hotdoggers,” Oscar Meyer brand ambassadors who drive the company’s Wienermobile all over the country for marketing and media events. It’s a job many would relish; about 2,000 college seniors apply each year.

Heng shows off the Wienermobile anywhere from a grocery store opening in a town of 2,000 in rural Ohio to a barbecue festival on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. with 80,000 people.

On Thursday, he’ll be back at UNL, showing off the vehicle and collecting personal care items for OpeNShelf from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lutheran Center, 535 N. 16th St. “My friends and family think (the job is) a little ridiculous, but they know that I’m a little ridiculous and a little goofy so it fits me,” Heng said. “I’m excited to show it off on campus.”

Heng spent June through December traveling in the northeast region of the U.S., and since January has been touring the South. Nebraska will be the 33rd state Heng has visited in the Wienermobile.

As an advertising and public relations major at UNL, Heng said his passion became telling stories and promoting events for organizations he was involved in on campus and in Lincoln.

One day while scrolling through Reddit, Heng came across a post describing the life of a Wienermobile driver and was immediately intrigued.

The tradition and iconic status of the Wienermobile is what Heng said drew him to the job. He said he wanted to be a part of a story that has been around for eight decades.

“I was familiar with the Wienermobile, but I don’t think people think about the fact that there’s someone responsible for it that drives it,” Heng said. “It stuck with me so I did some research and found out that they were in fact looking for college graduates, so I applied out of the blue.”

Oscar Meyer recruits hotdoggers at 10 colleges in the U.S., but Nebraska wasn’t one of them. Heng sent in a mail application and turned down a full-time job offer to interview for the hotdogger position, a decision he said was absolutely the right one.

“My family was a little apprehensive at first,” Heng said. “When you tell them that you want to sign up to drive a giant hot dog around the country, that’s not a normal first job out of school. But just yesterday I got to take the Wienermobile home to my house in York, Nebraska, and park it in my driveway and they loved it.”

In June 2014, Heng and the other hotdoggers attended “Hot Dog High,” the Wienermobile driver training at Oscar Meyer headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. The team members learned about their media responsibilities, how to maneuver the giant hot dog and the history of the Wienermobile.

Then they hit the road.

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Matt Heng stands next to the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile in Lincoln Wednesday. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumnus became 1 of 12 “hotdoggers,” who represent Oscar Meyer by driving Wienermobiles around the country, after he graduated in 2014.

“You go from being in college, having a network of friends, a consistent schedule and a home,” Heng said. “And then all of a sudden you’re in a new city each week, and you’re living out of two suitcases and on the road with someone 24/7 that you’ve known for two weeks.”

Even though it was a challenging adjustment, Heng said making people smile when he’s driving the Wienermobile makes traveling worth it. Heng said the funniest thing about being a hotdogger is seeing people’s jaws drop, something he thought was just an expression until he drove the Wienermobile.

“We were driving around Madison during training and pulled up behind a little boy and his dad,” Heng said. “We have a horn that plays the Oscar Meyer Weiner song, so we honked it and the boy turned around and his eyes got big and his jaw literally dropped. It’s those kind of reactions that make your day and make other people’s day as well.”

Oscar Meyer seeks drivers who can deliver unlimited amounts of joy to thousands of people each day. Tayler Lord, a fifth-year senior at UNL studying English and French and a friend

My family was a little apprehensive at first. When you tell them that you want to sign up to drive a giant hot dog around the country. But just yesterday I got to take the Wienermobile home to my house in York, Nebraska, and park it in my driveway and they loved it.”

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of Heng’s, said Heng fits that description.

“He’s very outgoing, and he knows how to communicate really well with people,” Lord said. “He’s good at getting people excited about something, and his job with the Wienermobile is essentially that. It’s kind of cheesy and pretty goofy, but that’s perfect for him.”

Heng’s last day as a hotdogger will be June 7 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He said he’ll miss feeling like he’s roadtripping with a celebrity

when people follow him down the highway or ask to look inside the Wienermobile when he’s stopped at a gas station.

“It’s unlike any other road trip you would ever go on,” Heng said. “The Wienermobile was created in 1936 because Oscar Meyer wanted to see people smile. It still accomplishes that goal, and I’m thankful that I’m one of the lucky dogs that gets to drive it.”

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Q&A with RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage CAIT THIESFELD DN This evening, RuPaul’s Drag Race Battle of the Seasons tour will take the mainstage at the Bourbon Theatre.

Hosted by Drag Race judge Michelle Visage, nationally renowned drag performers will show off their beauty and talents throughout the evening.

The show will start at 10 p.m. and tickets are $35 at the door and $50 for VIP tickets, which includes a meet-and-greet with the performers an hour before the show.

The Daily Nebraskan interviewed Visage in anticpation of the show and discussed touring and drag queen talent.

Daily Nebraskan: How long have you been collaborating with and working with RuPaul?

Michelle Visage: I’ve been working with RuPaul professionally since 1996. But we met each other in probably 1987 or 88. We’ve been working together professionally since ‘96 when we started doing a morning radio show together in New York City.

DN: Tell me about some of your experience of working with RuPaul, especially on the Drag Race.

MV: I’m not going to lie, when you get to work with your best friend...I mean people don’t get to say that often. So I feel very blessed and very lucky.

But we also very much compliment each other, so there is a reason why we work so well together. It’s a matter of being a well-oiled machine and Ru and I kind of complete eachothers’ sentences and understand the way each other thinks, so it’s a given, it’s amazing. You couldn’t ask for better than to work with your best friend and actually for it to be a hitchanging lives-unbelievable.

DN: How has the experience been for you to be a judge and a host on RuPaul’s Drag Race?

MV: Well I host all of the shows. I’ve been a host on TV and in life for the past 20 years, so for me, that’s what I do. Being in radio for 17 years and all that stuff, it’s what I do. But as far as being on television and being next to him - it’s where I belong.

DN: Can we talk about the podcast that you have with RuPaul called ‘What’s the Tee’? What can you tell me about it?

MV: Ru and I, we do it together - it comes out

weekly now - it started out as something that we did together doing morning radio so when the idea of a podcast came, we jumped at the idea to work with each other again in a different media. The fact that we can do it in a media of radio - it was just perfect for us. So then we sit basically at his kitchen table and talk about whatever we are thinking whether it’s about drag, living the life to the fullest or working through his shoes in his personal life - that’s what it’s about - so really it’s about friendship, love and having fun.

DN: Is there anything you are looking forward to especially in Lincoln or the Drag Race altogether?

MV: I don’t really know anything about Lincoln. What I get excited about is going to cities that I’ve never been to before and explore. So for me, I’m just excited about doing that. I think that most of the kids feel the same way.

DN: Has there been anything about this tour that is a little bit different than what you have been around before?

MV: We always look forward to performing, and new crowds are exciting. It’s great that the people in Lincoln can see what these kids can do and I know that our girls are really excited about performing. It’s gonna be fun!

DN: Do you have any favorite performers?

MV: I have two daughters of my own, and I could never pick a favorite. Asking me to pick a favorite drag queen is like asking me to pick a favorite child. I literally could never do that. Let me tell you something, they are all talented. Everybody that is coming to this show is talented - but the ones that are going on this tour, you can’t go wrong with any of them.

DN: What would you say to get people to come out of the seclusion of their homes and see the show?

MV: Well this is a show that they will never ever see anywhere. It’s not a drag show that you will see at your local bar - but this is a two hour theater production with all sorts of elements. It’s not just drag queens standing on stage being drag queens. It’s drag queens standing on stage singing live, performing live, juggling, walking on stilts, comedy, doing everything that they do for two hours. I mean it’s unbelievable. People will leave thinking that they just left a Broadway production.

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Focus missonary uses past experiences to help UNL students FAITH BOHATY DN Going into high school, Carter Hawkins knew he wanted to be the quintessential cool guy with the perfect social life and perfect grades.

His four years at Gretna High School were exactly what he hoped for, he said, and when it was time to pick a college he wanted that same experience but at a place where he could start fresh and become independent.

His choice was Auburn University in Alabama.

“It was the perfect blend of everything I wanted,” Hawkins said. “I really loved it.”

During his freshman year, however, he began making choices based on instant gratification.

“I had found a group of friends and together we focused on the ‘good time,’” Hawkins said.

“Everything else in my life came second, including the Catholic faith I had my entire life. I figured ev-

ery bad thing I did was justified as long as I went to Mass on Sunday.”

Before long he started experimenting with drugs and after that, taking girls home. Each boundary he set for himself would eventually be crossed.

“I always thought of it as drawing a line in the sand, with every action behind it OK to do,” Hawkins said. “Slowly, I would approach that line, erase it and draw a new one further out. Before I knew it I was drowning in the ocean.”

By this time, going out on Wednesdays, sometimes even Tuesdays, and then continuing through Saturday was typical. His desire for a good time had taken over his entire life.

“I remember feeling miserable during the day because of the night before but I wouldn’t stop,” Hawkins said. “It was my friends and I’s entertainment and fun, it became our lifestyle.”

The first moment he began to question his choices came during the middle of his junior year.

“I was laying in bed thinking how tired I am

of this lifestyle, I knew if I didn’t make a change I would end up in jail or dead,” Hawkins said. “Everything I had thought I wanted wasn’t bringing me the satisfaction that I thought it would. Each achievement I made, positions I held were never enough, I was never satisfied.”

As is common for people in the throes of addiction, his moment of realization didn’t stop him from breaking his bad habits. It wasn’t until he met Focus missionary James Donnagen that things slowly started to change.

“During my first senior year I met James, a new missionary to Auburn,” Hawkins said. “I wasn’t looking for a friendship but slowly I learned about his past and realized it was similar to the way I was living. I knew I could trust him to understand what I was going through.”

After their friendship grew, Donnagen began investing in Carter. He wanted him to know what it meant to be a Catholic and not just a Sunday Mass goer. It was during this time that Carter began re-

alizing what he had been looking for all of those years.

That December he was invited to go on a mission trip to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The trip proved to be an experience of firsts that would finally push Carter into making serious life changes.

“While I was there I prayed a holy hour every day; I had never in my life done that,” Hawkins said. “Just sitting there in silence with only you and Jesus. It was also the first time I prayed using a Bible. It challenged me in the greatest of ways.”

Hawkins said one evening while on the beach, he was reading a book given to him by Donnagen: “Jesus Shock” by Peter Kreeft. While reading through a section on the Eucharist he experienced another moment of realization. The door opened, he said, the light poured in and he was ready to change.

Hawkins learned to resist acting on his physi-

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Carter Hawkins poses inside The Newman Center. Hawkins left behind a life of drugs and alcohol after going on a missionary trip to Mexico. cal temptations and to moderate his consumption of alcohol. At the same time, he said, he began surrounding himself with friends who loved him for who he was, not what he could do for them.

The fall of his second senior year, Donnagen encouraged him to consider becoming a Focus missionary. Carter was hesitant, but agreed to attend the interview weekend in Colorado. At the same time he applied for a Fulbright Scholarship. He leaned toward becoming a missionary but wanted to wait on the outcome of the Fulbright Scholarship. He remembers praying for a direction as to which path he should choose.

“I don’t know where you’re calling me God but if you want me to be a missionary then make it happen,” Hawkins remembers thinking.

The rejection letter he later received from the Fulbright Scholarship was “the best rejection letter of my life.” From there, he said, he knew which path to take.

Hawkins is working as a Focus Missionary at the Catholic Newman Center on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. His goal is to provide the same service for struggling students that Donnagen provided for him.

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HAOTONG WEI BIOCHEMISTRY MAJOR We love great style here at the Daily Nebraskan Arts and Entertainment section. That’s why this year, we’ll be scouting out the best-dressed students on campus to feature in our very first weekly street style section.

We plan on featuring all interesting UNL style. Whether that

be a stylish sorority girl or a man wearing a Scooby-Doo costume on campus, we’re looking for the best and most unique fashion campus. So to all you trendsetters out there, your next outfit might be printed right here in Daily Nebraskan.

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I would say my style is pretty much like any other college student. A lot of outdoors stuff that I can pretty much just wear anytime of the year. In America, having style means that you dress up, but in China, where I’m from, we don’t really think that way.”

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7 WAYS TO SPEND YOUR SPRING BREAK In just two days, spring break will begin for students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Soon, thousands of sweaty, exhausted people will scatter about and chillax with their friends someplace nice before putrid college existence drags them back. It’s only one week of whatever the hell you decide to do, but it’s free time nonetheless.

In other words, this next week has the potential to be the most rad spring break ever. We here at the Daily Nebraskan want you to have a good time.

We love all of you (platonically and – for some – more) and want to be a part of your break. So, here’s a guide to the perfect spring break.

1. Hang out with your friends

Make sure to spend it with other people.

It’s no fun chugging brewskis and having fun in the sun without partners in crime.

Your long-time best friend might want to spend some quality time with you, so get past any setbacks and go on an adventure.

A good spring break involves spending time with your good ol’ pals and just hanging out, no matter where you go and what you do. And if you don’t have buddies, invite the DN staff.

We’re always here for you.

2. Fake happy till you make happy

What’s that?

You say you have to work during spring break?

Or that your terrible, boring family is going to Aunt Jenny’s for the week because Cousin Hal can’t do a piano recital without a goddamn audience?

Well, then, you can still have fun.

Keep a positive attitude. First, remember that there will be moments outside of the boring stuff to have fun. But, also, you can make even the boring parts euphoric and unhealthily fun. Just make sure to condition yourself to enjoy that waiter job or that family trip. No matter what, this spring break will leave its mark on you.

3. Road trip

As I said before, some of you, sadly, won’t be able to go to a spring break bonanza in Miami or San Antonio, where you can witness surrealism and vodka-induced hijinks clash.

It’s expensive as hell to travel. Luckily, there are still thrifty places to go if you get the chance. Small towns provide a certain charm of local restaurants and venues and give you things to do without brutally robbing you. Around here, TIME magazine lists Nebraska City as a destination that offers small town charm and provides a plethora of museums, such as Kimmel Harding

Nelson Center for the artistic minded or the Kimmel Orchard and Vineyard for those interested in old farming traditions. If you crave the prestige of a national vacation spot, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming gives you 2 million acres of wildlife preserve to hike, horseback or simply admire while chewing granola and never paying more than $25 for admission or a spot in a campsite, according to The Smithsonian website. The Smithsonian even recommends cities such as Chicago and New Orleans, since these claustrophobic cultural cities can offer hotel rooms for around $100 in some cases.

4. Drink, drink and be merry

Make sure to drink something. Spring break is a time for drinking…er, something.

Some people go for fruity alcoholic drinks with little paper umbrellas and some mysterious ingredient that makes drinkers go “Wooohellyeah” after every sip. Some people drink a strong, even more alcoholic concoction while they sit in a darkened and empty room and become more existential/less happy. Even if you’re not of drinking age, come up with some unique drink to treat yourself and cool off as you bask in the sun. If you want to get creative, check out and endure Every Day with Rachael Ray website for wacky drinks - non-alcoholic or otherwise - to gradually get sick of.

5. Or use your time wisely

Apply for a couple summer job or internship. Spring break is the prime time to edit resumes and cover letters and to maybe even apply for some of those jobs that are just ripe for the picking. Of course, always check the Husker Hire Link page at www.unl.edu/careers/hhl to look for upcoming jobs and internships in Lincoln that you could totes pull of because you’re so cool. Who knows, there might be a killer bounty hunter position open or some underground spinal cord harvesting internship.

But, seriously, spring break gives you the opportunity to work on – pfffft.

Nah. Alright. We’re done. All fun and games, but the joke’s run its course.

6. When all else fails, go to Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo

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As Lincolnites, we have the opportunity to drive - with Metallica playing loudly in the car, of course - for only an hour in order to go to one of the largest and most famous zoos in the country: the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.

For only $16, check out all your distant relatives accomplish more than you at the Hubbard Gorilla Valley exhibit, or wait expectantly for a tapir to do awesome tapir stuff at the Lied Jungle exhibit.

Go out and be a wild animal with other animals. Just be careful not to be too wild.

7. Scream loudly and wave your arms wildly about.

It’s spring break, man. That’s about all we can say.

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DAILY NEBRASKAN EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Administrators show double standard in Innocents response istIn 2012, the sorority Sigma Lambda Gamma was placed on a one-year suspension for forcing pledges to carry an egg for a week, remain awake for long hours and stop talking to men, among other rituals.

Two years later, an inductee of the Innocents Society – the chancellor’s senior honorary – was blindfolded, surrounded by hooded and robed figures, bull-rushed and slammed to the ground. He nearly suffered a concussion.

But the Innocents faced no punishment.

Members discussed releasing a public statement on the incident, but records show they opted to keep quiet.

When the incident came to light in the Daily Nebraskan last week, cries of hazing were promptly dismissed by administrators and local leaders. The act was harmless, said prominent figures ranging from Chancellor Harvey Perlman to former Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, an Innocents alumnus. Move along, they said, nothing to see here – ignoring definitions of hazing from the student code of conduct on up to state law. Disregarding the opinions of professionals and anti-hazing advocates. Downplaying a situation so serious that it has prompted an investigation by university police.

This is what power looks like.

Perlman, an attorney, can’t possibly believe his own defense of the ritual. He has twice compared it to football, a sport that results in frequent concussions and long-term brain injury. Other times, he has merely repeated the student code of conduct without outlining why the Innocents’ ritual doesn’t qualify. His response lacks respect for victims of hazing, parties punished under hazing policy and law, and the very students he serves.

UNL’s student code of conduct defines

hazing thusly: “any activity by which a person intentionally or recklessly endangers the physical or mental health or safety of an individual for the purpose of initiation into, admission into, affiliation with, or continued membership with any student organization.”

We know tackling has resulted in at least one verifiable injury. We’ve heard there may be others. And if it goes on as practiced, there’s no question it’ll result in more.

For this reason alone, the Innocents’ tackling is clearly hazing. Bruning cemented that argument when he admitted in the Omaha World-Herald to tackling a “brash new member” extra hard, which is – by all measures – textbook hazing.

And to have an honorary member say it’s not, and to have that member – Perlman – make the final call on whether it’s allowed, sets a dangerous precedent. Perlman admits to being tackled himself. So does Bruning. Both, perhaps, enjoyed being part of the ritual. And maybe they don’t want to see a longstanding tradition go.

As journalists, we’re wary of conflicts of interest. And as far as conflicts of interest go, this reeks.

It speaks to an immense double standard. Try to imagine a Greek organization in the same position as the Innocents.

The national chapter would suspend the organization. The university would investigate. Statements of condemnation would abound.

Somehow, the Innocents aren’t subject to the same level of scrutiny. Lacking no independent overseer, they walk away scot-free.

When a student is hazed, it sends a message. The act itself may seem harmless, but it sets a clear precedent for its subject: We make the rules. From then on, there’s no telling what kind of harm an organization can inflict

EDITORIAL POLICY The editorial above contains the opinion of the spring 2015 Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

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upon an inductee – consenting or not – for continued membership.

The lackluster response to the allegations against the Innocents plays into a similar dynamic. It gives an impression of power

and control. And it speaks to the dangerous mindset of our administrators: We make the rules.

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Don’t be surprised by social media creeping Jaz Schoeneck

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ind your phone wherever it is. Do you have it? Now open that phone and just stare at it. Is it a smartphone? A dumb phone? A phone that got average grades in high school but falls behind in college?

OK, now check the Facebook app. JUST KIDDING! Don’t actually open it, I’d like you to finish my article first. The point, dear reader, is that our world is fully connected to social media. It’s not just for the rich and famous anymore; even pay-by-the-minute phones are starting to provide access to our social media pages. For many, checking Facebook has become a morning ritual similar to brushing one’s teeth. I know I find it hard to go five minutes without wondering if that buzzing I feel on my legs is a tweet, snap or perhaps minor nerve damage. We’ve become integrated and inundated with connections to others. I’m sure you’re asking the same thing I’ve been wondering: “Is this such a bad thing?”

Living in a world filled with intersecting wires and electronic streams of data has its perks. For instance, my editor at the Daily Nebraskan can email me at any time of the day about how late my column is, and she’s got a pretty high probability of receiving a timely, if somewhat disheveled response. That’s pretty amazing (and totally not something I dread), as is the fact that I can learn about my homeslice’s new band the second he announces. I could spend all day finding perks for an interconnected world, but that would be boring and I’m sure you already get it. No, what I’m more concerned with is this pattern we’ve gotten into as a society. This idea that we must always be in a constant contact with each other. I find that human beings are becoming dependent on knowing every little detail about one another.

The divides humans have built among their various social groups are continuously pulled down and rearranged by the evershifting ocean of the Internet. There are fewer distinctions between groups because of our fancy ability to share information. Joshua Meyrowitz, professor of communication at the University of New Hampshire, uses the idea of architecture as a metaphor for the shifting electronic-social landscape. He asks his readers to “imagine that many of the walls that separate rooms, offices and houses in our society were suddenly moved or removed and that many once distinct situations were combined.” Now groups that didn’t even know they shared interests can talk about My Little Pony for hours at a time and different groups of people fighting for similar causes can band together when they see kindred spirits on a forum. There’s no limit to the connections that can be made via the Internet and social media, but there are

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Be understanding of people with mental illness Tegan Colton

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obin Williams’ suicide last year should have caused the world to be more understanding of people with mental illness. It hasn’t.

Robin Williams’s death was tragic, and many were shocked that such a funny, talented and successful man could be depressed enough to kill himself. Some campaigns decided to use this shock as a way to remind people that depression (and other mental illnesses) are genetic and are no different from other physical ailments. They hoped people could understand that Williams’s depression was an ailment as deadly and serious as cancer. Nothing could have been done to stop it.

Others took a different approach. These people encouraged the depressed to “look to the light” and see the “goodness in things.”

Actor Peter Coyote was one of these people.

Saddened by Williams’ failure to “push through the darkness,” Coyote said that “what failed Robin was his greatest gift – his imagination … Had (it) been trained, it might’ve reminded him there is always something we can do.” His comment depicted Williams’ suicide as a senseless act without foresight, implying he wasn’t strong or

imaginative enough to see it through to the next day. Most of the people commenting on his Facebook seemed to see Coyote’s words as “beautiful” and agreed with his statements.

If these are the two ways we’ve come to view mental illness, we’re sorely unenlightened. Both views are harmful, wrong and alarmingly callous.

Our culture seems to attribute mental illnesses to a fatal flaw in either biology or character; neither option promotes empathy and understanding for the people who suffer from them. While attributing mental illness to genetics and biology isn’t wrong, its emphasis is ultimately harmful. Several studies have shown that emphasizing genetic basis for mental illness causes people to not only lose faith that such a person can be treated, but also decreases their willingness to associate with them. Many psychologists have hypothesized that a genetic attribution decreases the ability for people to see mentally ill people as people. Some psychologists argue that the genetic model “can promote an essential belief in the fundamental difference of the person from the rest of humanity … [and] may promote the attitude that the individual in question is inferior, even subhuman.”

Thus, when a person speaks to someone with a mental illness, that person may subconsciously feel the other ’s brain is so different they might as well be an alien, treating them like unthinking children or an animal.

But as seen with Peter Coyote’s account of Robin Williams’ suicide, the alternate belief that a mentally ill person is no different than a mentally well person encourages people to attribute blame and weakness of character onto the victims of mental illness.

This is no better than the former. People in this camp, especially family members, tend to be hypercritical and demeaning toward sufferers of mental illness. These people assume that because they themselves wouldn’t crack under pressure, the depressed, anxious or otherwise unwell person must be weak or somehow flawed in character for doing so. The stigma causes the unwell people to avoid getting treatment altogether, afraid of being seen as weak-willed or crazy for being unable to overcome something so apparently simple.

But it’s not simple. Whether a person has a genetic basis for their disorder or not, their sickness and pain is just as real as a physical injury. If a person has genetically brittle bones, do we find that person morally weak for breaking them? Would it make that person seem irrational? And if a person were shoved off a building, would we call them lazy if their back broke?

A person whose brain synapses have broken from stress and trauma is no longer able to feel any joy or happiness or hope. She may not even have the energy to get out of bed.

Yet she’s considered weak and irrational for doing so.

Remember this: If your brain could no longer transmit any dopamine or serotonin, you would feel like dying too.

When will people realize that the mentally unwell are no different from the rest of us?

Autistic teen Carly Fleischemann is fighting to make people understand how her mental disorder doesn’t make her different from anybody else. Nobody knew why Fleischemann would throw herself on the ground, scream, flail and hit people. Her parents and therapists assumed she didn’t have

any awareness of her own actions. That is until, at the 13 years old, she finally began typing out her feelings on a keyboard. Everyone was stunned. Behind her confusing and seemingly irrational behavior “was an articulate, intelligent, emotive person” no one had ever met. And as it turns out, she actually had rational awareness of seemingly irrational actions, like hitting herself or screaming. “I can’t help it,” she explains about her symptoms. “It feels like my legs are on fire and a million ants are crawling up my arms.”

She eventually goes on to type and reveal that behind her seemingly “unaware” mind was a normal girl who was simply trying to cope with the symptoms of her disease. “Autism is hard because you want to act one way, but you can’t always do that,” Fleischemann said.“I don’t want to be this way. But I am, so don’t be mad. Be understanding.”

Be understanding. Just like Fleischemann, people with autism, schizophrenia, bipolar, depression or anything else are complete, rational, relatable people coping with unseen symptoms. Robin Williams’ suicide was heartbreaking, but it didn’t reveal an irrational, weak mind behind his genius. Williams was the same good, kind man we all loved who struggled with the unrelenting pain and despair of manic depression. We don’t have to agree with his choice, but we must understand how we would feel similarly if we suffered like he did. Remember that next time you meet someone suffering with a mental illness. Please, as Fleischemann would say, be understanding.

TEGAN COLTON IS A SENIOR ENGLISH MAJOR. REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

Lack of draft distances students from war Colin Loberg

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ow often do you think about the United States going to war?

Not the thought that war may happen or that the U.S. might send troops somewhere but actually thinking about how another war would affect you (obviously if you’re in the ROTC or the National Guard, this question is irrelevant, war may be a daily concern of yours). But for the average American college student, war has become an abstraction, and this presents a danger for current and future U.S. policy.

It’s easy to fire back, “Colin, c’mon man.

I’m a student. That was a stupid, leading question” (which I wouldn’t disagree with). But the ability for a college student to feel ambivalent about this question is only a recent development. For the majority of American highereducation’s existence, war was an inescapable part of a student’s life. The idea that Congress could take you from a comfortable life and send you to potentially die on foreign soil informed the lives of every American college student.

The answer to what changed is easy: the end of U.S. conscription in 1973. The Vietnam War will likely be the last U.S. war ever fought without an all-volunteer force. And this change has had massive ramifications on how students and the general population view declarations of war.

Vietnam War student protests have a reputation as a mainly coastal or private school trend, but in actuality the anti-war effort surfaced on every college campus. 1965 saw the formation of UNL’s own Campus Freedom Democratic Society, a liberal RSO designed to increase students’ rights, which later covered anti-war issues. CDFS ran candidates in the 1965 ASUN election, and although the party

Iraq War, while also extremely unpopular, won several seats, it became part of a larger elicited nowhere near the same reaction. And movement of Midwestern anti-war student activity. The Campus Freedom Democratic So- how could it? If a student wanted to fight, they ciety and other anti-war organizations were ac- could enlist and serve. The 2003 ASUN parties tive forces on campus, leading lectures, student of Foam, College and Sausage and independent forums and protests. In 1970, ASUN held town- candidates didn’t lead anti-war protests, teachhall for students and brought in foreign policy ins or bring in foreign policy experts. There wasn’t any evolutionary experts to talk with them. change that made milThe Vietnam-era stuThis sentiment – war lennials less empathic dents lived everyday than their parents, the cognizant of the truth is something that institution had changed. that their brothers and Without Damoscele’s classmates were at risk of happens to others – has sword of war, it’s only turning into one of Walter deep ramifications in natural that students are Cronkite’s statistics. Even less preoccupied with with Saigon 8,500 miles modern military policy.”

U.S. efforts abroad. away, the war was in LinThis isn’t an indictcoln. ment of current students. This isn’t a lament Two years after campaigning on an antidraft pledge, President Nixon commissioned over the weakness and apathy of this gena report on a volunteer force, with former De- eration. And this certainly isn’t condemnation against students not involved in ROTC or the fense Secretary Robert Gates promising that Guard. This isn’t even a call for the reinstate“an all-volunteer force offers an obvious opportunity to curb the growth of anti-militaristic sentiment.”

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Acknowledge that privilege affects your opinions Amy Kenyon

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he other day a few of the Daily Nebraskan editors and I were comparing the areas in which some of us hold privilege. Our categories included race, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, family structure, socio-economic status, strength of eyesight and likelihood of employability. Obviously some of these traits hold a lot more weight than others.

And while we were all fairly comfortable openly sharing these aspects of our background and appearance, there was some defensiveness about who of us was overall the most privileged.

For my own part, I tried to be honest about embracing and being thankful for the advantages I’ve grown up with. Not in a “Haha, I’m better than you” or even a “Thank goodness society is set up in my favor; glad I’m not you” kind of way. Instead, I explained that we need to first

recognize our privilege in order to think critically about social and political systems. This honesty leads to open discussions on why these features set us apart beyond the superficial. Why has society decided some of us will get by where others cannot?

When writing opinions, I sometimes question what authority I have to weigh in on an event I’m not personally connected to or a social trend that seems immovably entrenched. What assumptions am I making about the situation?

How does my perspective as a white cis female Nebraska college student affect the judgments I’m making? Is there another side to the story I should consider? Though asking these questions seem natural when composing an opinion column, we should consider them more often in our daily lives.

A few other stories in the news got me thinking about how we can embrace the discomfort of social structures in order to improve them. As a DN article explained, a recent study showed that while college presidents acknowledge sexual assault is a problem, they don’t want to think about it happening on their own campus. Accepting that systems of oppression exist is a good first step. But realizing you and your immediate environment are part of those systems is a crucial next move.

This personal involvement can be attempted

in a number of ways, some more successful than others. For example, yesterday I heard the story of the Starbucks #RaceTogether campaign. Starbucks was encouraging their employees to write the hashtag on coffee cups and to talk about race with their customers. Several sources have since shown how the Internet has almost unanimously agreed this was a terrible idea.

One could think, “Sure, people respond to hashtags. That’ll get something going.” The fact is that Starbucks as an institution has privilege, based on the areas in which it operates and the assumptions people make about its primary demographic. Assuming that a meaningful conversation on a complicated topic can happen in this space, in the rush of the morning, from poorly prepared baristas is presumptuous and worthy of Twitter mockery. Especially considering one of the executives behind the campaign deleted his Twitter account after it was flooded with questions about the campaign. Discussions on socially prevalent issues such as racism should occur more often, but we have to realize the emotional impact they may have, whether or not we’re personally affected.

What can we do instead? A group at UNL is attempting to create conversation and accountability in a more promising way. The DN reported this week how the Vice Chancellor’s Character Council, made up of campus student leaders,

is asking students to sign a pledge “to take action against intolerance and bigotry.” This movement came in response to the racist chant made by students at the University of Oklahoma. We could easily argue that UNL is of a higher caliber and racial remarks would never be made here. But the fact is they already have been.

The most public example, of course, is the use of the ‘N’word by former ASUN senator Cameron Murphy during a November 2013 meeting.

Murphy’s tirade sparked discussion across campus and spurred the development of the “Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever!” campaign. While we aren’t directly at fault this time, we can’t forget that events like this have happened and continue to happen in a variety of locations.

Privilege exists everywhere. You don’t need to be defensive about it. You do, however, need to realize how it affects your relationship to social issues. Institutions and individuals love to fuss when they feel directly threatened by problematic events. But that’s not the only time we need to care. Sometimes our privilege protects us from being impacted, but that doesn’t excuse us. Continue to think, continue to talk, continue to act.

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SCHOENECK: FROM 11 self-imposed limits that society can attempt to alleviate.

There’s a mass disillusionment going on at the moment, and I’d like to contribute to that process. Consider this situation for a moment: A person of your preferred sexual orientation or gender has an online profile and you would like to look back through his or her pictures to see some of the moments in his or her life.

So you “like” one of the pictures and later on someone calls you a “creeper.” Or imagine you were the person whose picture and information are sifted through. I’ve known many people who were genuinely upset when someone “creeped” on their profile. There’s a certain sense of invasion of privacy that people have

don’t want someone to see it? Did you just fill when it comes to their online personas. in the form when it told you to and pretend this Now here’s Jaz’s Honest Truth: Anything you place on the Internet is not private any- wasn’t a public sphere of a sort?

I’m not bashing on more. Even if it’s a secured social media. I think password on a secured it has a multitude of site, there’s now a record We cannot pretend wonderful uses. I’m of that information. When we live in a world just concerned with the it comes to online social delusion of privacy. We media humans need to shy where our information is cannot pretend we live away from this belief that our own any more.

We can in a world where our their information is anyinformation is our own thing but personal. Isn’t see everything.” anymore. We can see that the point? I mean, you everything.

President can put all the privacy filters on that you want, but why even put that Obama can’t even scratch his nose without information out there in the first place if you someone snapping a pic and throwing it on

the Internet (caption: President Obama ‘nose’ nothing about politics). We did it to ourselves and we must accept that this is how the world works or we must remove as much of the information from the Internet-ether as possible.

If we go on pretending that our information is private or that we can attempt to hide something from others in this modern day, it’s just going to lead to disappointment. So next time you get upset at someone for “creepin your profile,” just remember that’s literally the point of Facebook.

JAZ SCHOENECK IS A JUNIOR ENGLISH AND FILM STUDIES MAJOR. CONTACT HIM AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR ON TWITTER AT @JAZ_SCHOENECK

sell a war if you were never personally forced into service and you can sign the authorization knowing full well that your own children will not be forced into service.

The U.S. will most likely not go to war.

Hopefully level-headed negotiations will prevail and the matter can be resolved peacefully. But, if a war does break out, I won’t be

serving, you will most likely not be serving but that abstract “other” will be. And that abstract “other” may die. And that is a tragedy.

COLIN LOBERG IS A JUNIOR ECONOMICS MAJOR. REACH HIM AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

LOBERG: FROM 12 ment of the draft. It’s a reminder. The abolishment of the draft reduced the Tragedy of War to the lower-case tragedy of war for the general population. As Defense Secretary Robert Gates lamented after 9/11, war has become “a distant and unpleasant series of news items that do not affect them (Americans) personally.”

This sentiment – war is something that happens to others – has deep ramifications in modern military policy. As negotiations with Iran plod on, already op-eds and congressional cries for war have rung out, warmongering often led by representatives and authors who have never had war presented as a clear and present danger. It’s easier to

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